Barneey’s Restaurant and Motel (ca. 1960s)

Barneey’s is still there (although now a gas station versus a restaurant with live music) and the apartments still stand as well. I think it’s safe to say there was a lot more charm to the establishment back then. These shots were taken in the 1960s when the motel was just built.

Wanda Iverson says, “My first husband and I, when we managed the apartments, lived in the up close end one. In the middle was a laundry room and personal storage areas. I painted a lot of those apartments’ brick walls.”

Thank you Bee Rick Reynolds for sharing these on Facebook. Bee’s grandmother Sadie Hughes, used to own Barneeys for a number of years.

With the old Christensen’s store, (which also became the Sears store) being currently remodeled into a thrift store, this seemed like a good time to post this shot taken in 1942.
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The Eatonville School District has come a long way in the last 100+ years. This was Eatonville’s first schoolhouse. You can find it today at Glacier View Park.
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Joe Larin captured this group cleaning up at the Mashel Prairie Indian Cemetery Shaker Church. Anyone have any names?
The Indian Henry grave monument is there today in La Grande, Wash.
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